Plato Quotes
+30Even the gods love jokes.
- Plato
+14Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.
- Plato
+4The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.
- Plato
+3The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
- Plato
+3Geometry existed before creation.
- Plato
+3The beginning is the most important part of the work.
- Plato
+3The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future.
- Plato
+1God is not the author of all things, but of good only.
- Plato
+1Only the dead have seen the end of war.
- Plato
+1All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.
- Plato
+1At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato
+1You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
- Plato
+1Books are immortal sons deifying their sires.
- Plato
+1Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.
- Plato
+1A tyrant is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.
- Plato
+1Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
+1Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.
- Plato
+1Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
- Plato
+1Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
- Plato
+1What I say is that ‘just’ or ‘right’ means nothing but what is in the interest of the stronger party.
- Plato
+1They certainly give very strange names to diseases.
- Plato
+1When the mind is thinking, it is talking to itself.
- Plato
+1Mathematics is like checkers in being suitable for the young, not too difficult, amusing, and without peril to the state.
- Plato
+1Numbers are the highest degree of knowledge. It is knowledge itself.
- Plato
+1The bees can abide no drones amongst them; but as soon as they begin to be idle, they kill them.
- Plato
+1God ever geometries.
- Plato
+1Man a being in search of meaning.
- Plato
+1Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being, while movement and methodical physical exercise save it and preserve it.
- Plato
+1The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.
- Plato
+1Courage is knowing what not to fear.
- Plato
+1To sing well and to dance is to be well educated.
- Plato
+1The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.
- Plato
+1Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.
- Plato
+1Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.
- Plato
+1Old age: A great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold, you may have escaped, not from one master but from many.
- Plato
+1More will be accomplished, and better, and with more ease, if every man does what he is best fitted to do, And nothing else.
- Plato
0Love is a serious mental disease.
- Plato
0Life must be lived as play.
- Plato
-1The greatest mistake in the treatment of diseases is that there are physicians for the body and physicians for the soul, although the two cannot be separated.
- Plato
-1Let no one ignorant of geometry enter here.
- Plato
